Attractions of Kremenchuk

The pedagogical-memorial house-museum of the outstanding teacher Anton Semenovych Makarenko was opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

Anton Makarenko spent 1905-1911 and 1917-1919 in this house. The Kremenchuk Museum became the first museum of a famous teacher in the former USSR.

Currently, the museum exposition has about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, antimony, violin), furniture and books of his parents.

The Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics was opened in 2014 at the initiative of enthusiast and amateur historian Anatoliy Byshenko, 6 years after the start of work.

The museum is located in the basement of the building, next to which the activists of the public organization "Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics" previously broke a square and erected a monument to the fallen pilots from Kremenchuk.

The museum covers events related to the city's history of aviation, but in general, the exposition is built on the theme of World War II. The museum presents military and civilian uniforms of pilots (both modern and from the time of the Soviet Union), documents, photographs, awards, household items, samples of weapons, models of military aircraft, etc.

The granite rock on the banks of the Dnipro in Kremenchuk is a geological monument of nature and an ancient geodetic mark.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was used as a rapper - a sign fixing a point on the earth's surface, the height of which in relation to the original leveled surface was determined by leveling.

The rock is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites 2.5-3 billion years old. It is also called a granite register.

On the rock, which rises 5-6 meters above the river level, there are marks of the highest water levels during floods on the Dnipro since the 18th century. These floods occurred in 1789, 1820, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1889, 1895, 1945.

Since 1970, the granite rapper has been a natural monument of local importance.

The renovated art salon in Kremenchuk is an active creative platform that combines an exhibition space, a democratic bar, a platform for creative experiments, a designer store and a literary house.

This is a space for the presentation of creative works, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. Workshops, cultural and educational programs, round tables, discussions, master classes, lectures, seminars, meetings with young and prominent representatives of modern culture are held here.

Kremenchuk Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1975. The exposition of the museum is located in 11 halls and covers geography, history, ethnography and art of the region.

The number of exhibits stored in the funds of the Museum of Local Lore is over 66 thousand units. The paleontological collection of the museum is the largest in Poltava region. The funds contain a wonderful collection of minerals and rocks, as well as a unique sample of fossil amber weighing 525 grams, which is over 30 million years old. The archeological collection of the museum includes more than 6,000 items, covering the time range from the Mousterian Paleolithic to the excavation materials of the late medieval fortress Kremenchuk.

The oldest manuscript document stored in the museum dates back to 1813. The thematic collection "Life of Kremenchuk citizens at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries" is significant.

The monument to plumbers in Kremenchuk was created at the expense of employees of the local water utility. It is designed to perpetuate the difficult work of locksmiths and plumbers.

The monument was installed at the entrance to the utility company "Kremenchukvodokanal" on the occasion of the company's 95th anniversary.

The sculpture depicts two workers twisting the valve of a water supply.

"Peace Park" (Park Myru) was established in Kremenchuk in 1983 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the German-fascist invaders.

The only Peace Gong in Ukraine - the Indonesian symbol of peace - has been installed on the territory of the park. There is also an open-air museum of military equipment and a parking lot, there are children's and sports grounds, and a chess club.

In 2012, a Sakura Avenue was planted in the park. In 2017, a memorial sign "To the Righteous of the World" was unveiled in Peace Park, on the territory of which more than 20,000 civilians were shot during the years of German-fascist occupation.

The observation deck of Peace Park offers a wonderful view of the central part of Kremenchuk.

The All-Ukrainian Museum of the Uniform History in Kremenchuk was founded by collector Roman Patsovsky in 2018 with the support of veteran organizations. Since 2020, the exhibition has been housed in the second building of the Kremenchuk Gymnasium No. 27.

The collection of the Uniform Museum includes about 4,000 uniforms of state structures operating on the territory of Ukraine in the 20th-11th centuries. Samples of clothing and equipment of the Soviet Army, Navy and Air Force of the USSR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB, the SBU, border troops, the prosecutor's office, military educational institutions, the fiscal service, the customs service, the civil sea and river fleets, civil aviation, postal services, Ministry of Emergency Situations, forest protection, executive service, service of execution of punishments, railway transport.

Museum employees conduct thematic tours of the city of Kremenchuk.

A branch of the Uniform History Museum is the Kremenchuk Military History Museum, located in the same building.